A former Guantanamo Bay detainee and Libyan national, who was paid £1 million in compensation by the UK taxpayer, gave some of the money to teenage jihadists who later died as terrorists in Syria……In 2010, the government paid £20 million to 17 former British Guantanamo detainees. One beneficiary, Jamal al-Harith, later became a terrorist suicide bomber in Syria.

Is this any surprise? The highest calling of a jihadi is martyrdom, and the mujahideen is favored in accordance with Quran 4:95: “Allah has preferred the mujahideen through their wealth and their lives over those who remain, by degrees.”

Sobering thought: remember that murderous jihadist Omar Khadr received $10,500,000 and an apology from the Canadian government because of his so-called “torture” in Gitmo.

A former Guantanamo Bay detainee and Libyan national, who was paid £1 million in compensation by the UK taxpayer, gave some of the money to teenage jihadists who later died as terrorists in Syria.

Omar Deghayes (pictured, above) paid the money to two of his nephews – Abdullah Deghayes, 18 and Jaffar 17 – to encourage them to attend a Brighton gym behind a mosque where a network of radicalised Muslims met, a serious case review found Thursday.

The review, reported by The Telegraph, also slammed authorities for failing to intervene, after information about the gym was passed to Prevent (the government’s counter-radicalisation scheme), but the officer who received it failed to share it through the correct channels.

In 2010, the government paid £20 million to 17 former British Guantanamo detainees. One beneficiary, Jamal al-Harith, later became a terrorist suicide bomber in Syria.

Another prominent recipient, Moazzam Begg, has since built a career campaigning against anti-Terror laws with the group CAGE, who were criticised by the government for praising Islamic State executioner Jihadi John.

Thursday’s report discloses how the Deghayes brothers “had been paid money as a reward for attending the gym”.

Adding: “The payment was from an extended member of the siblings’ family who had previously been imprisoned, but released without charge”.

Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, commented: “We need a full investigation into how this money has been spent. We need to look at how this compensation has been used.”

The Deghayes brothers boarded a £59 one-way flight from Luton to Istanbul and travelled to Syria in 2014, and are believed to have been killed just a few months after their arrival.

Abdullah by a sniper while chasing retreating forces in Latakia, on the West coast of Syria, in April 2014 and Jaffar six months later during a close-range firefight amid the ruins of Idlib, in the north……

Maybe this ridiculous “compensation” would stop if every single non-Muslim, who was a member of any group whose rights are (ostensibly) protected under any government, would threaten to sue, and then follow through if their grievances weren’t met, every single time there was the slightest potential…slight…against their membership in that group. That would quickly be recognized as being unsustainable. As though the current situation is at all sustainable.

Better yet if some group(s) could provide funding so that this…er, we could call it a legislative “struggle”…could rapidly grow in scale. Better still if those groups had catchy names, like “The Decidedly Non-threatening Partnership That Only Hopes to Make Things a Little More Fair and Just”, or “LOVE” (Let’s Obviously Vote Equitably). Best of all would be an advocacy group with a deliberately misleading name, like the name’s of some of “their” organizations. How about POEM? You know, the Partnership Of Equality for Muslims — because they’re not getting equality, they’re getting preferential treatment. So I’d like to see them get equality: Commit a crime, pay the price. Plot against the government, be punished in a way that severely limits their ability to try that again. Declare war on a nation, nations, or, I don’t know, on the majority of the world, have the majority of the world retaliate in like fashion.

Oh and, any payments received under the above activities should be donated back to those supporting organizations, to be used for education, advocacy and legal fees. The Islamists may not be very intelligent, but they are clever. We would be clever to learn to use *their* tactics against them.

But seriously, as long as jihad is funded by Western governments, under the false pretense of religious or racial[sic] equity, we’re all doubly paying for our demise. The people in Western governments, who benefit in any ways from this practice, have to see that it’s unworkable to continue.

He cannot physically fight in Jihad anymore…so he is doing the next best thing… buying weapons and equipment for other Muslims to wage Jihad. Mohamed said that it is the same thing as fighting in Jihad, and merits the same reward in heaven.

Imagine if this went on during the Nuremberg trials…
“Again, we are so sorry, Mr Göring. The guards should have known to put you in a 5 star hotel and not a cell. Here’s a few million for your troubles. Tomorrow, Mr Churchill will address a formal apology. …The Holocaust ? Mr Göring’s crimes? Who said that, you naziphobes! Bring that person to justice now! …sorry that your delicate, aryan ears heard such hate speech, Mr Göring. Here. The taxpayer owes you a couple million more.”

They can give as much money as they like from their compensation as long as it is used to buy tickets out to Syria or wherever and gets jihadists out of UK and off to a place where their longing for martyrdom can be satisfied.

One of the so called Five Pillars of islam is known as Zakat (or Zakah), a form of religious tax or “charity” incumbent upon all muslims. This article cites K4.95 wherein it’s made clear dear old allah holds his Mujahideen in the very highest esteem. This is significant in many respects, including as regards those categories entitled to receive Zakat.

Reference to Zakat is more or less made in multiple Koranic verses — not least notably in the infamous Verse of the Sword 9.5 and in 9.60 (both in jolly old Al Tawbah therefore), specifying who are to be it’s darling recipients. Was this former Gitmo detainee (it ought have been life imprisonment), in any way misallocating our — not his — hard earned money? Ask the illustrious Yusuf al-Qaradawi, chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars as well as Al Azhar University fame:

“The meaning of Jihad in our present time particularly refers to striving to liberate Muslim lands from the grip of the disbelievers who usurped them and imposed on them their own laws in lieu of the Divine Law. Those disbelievers may be Jews, Christians or both or even pagans, who follow no particular religion at all. Disbelievers are all alike. Capitalists, Communists, Westerners, Easterners, People of the Book and pagans are by no means different from one other. They should all be fiercely fought if they attempt to occupy any part of the Muslim land. This duty falls on those closest to the occupied land, who should be aided by those closest to them, who, in turn, ought to be aided by those closest to them, till it becomes incumbent on all Muslims to take part in Jihad. Muslims have never been more severely afflicted than they are nowadays. Many of their lands have been captured by the disbelievers, on top of which is Palestine that has fallen victim to corrupt Jews. Similarly, Kashmir has been dominated by pagan Hindus. Chechnya and other Islamic states have fallen in the grip of pagan tyrannical communism. Retrieving these lands, freeing them from the clutches of atheists and their twisted laws is the joint responsibility of all Muslims. Declaring Jihad to save our land is an Islamic obligation. If war is waged anywhere to achieve this goal, namely to free the occupied lands of the laws and the tyranny of disbelievers, it is undoubtedly a case of Jihad for the sake of Allah. It thus needs to be financed from the money of Zakah, the amount of which is to be decided based on the total sum of the charity, the requirements of Jihad as well as the degree of the need of other potential recipients of charity. This is all to be decided by reliable scholars, if they are to be found. Allah Almighty knows best.”
Spending Zakah Money on Jihad
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, IslamOnline, March 9, 2011

There you have it: the typical victimhood narrative, assertion of the notion of “Muslim lands”, all disbelievers are alike and tyrannical and must be fought fiercely, war is to be waged anywhere, it’s a jihad for the sake of allah, to be financed by Zakat, this fight to continue until “all belief is for allah” — therefore global conquest and establishment of the universal caliphate.

Islam is morally and intellectually bankrupt. This filthy lucre known as Zakat is no substitute for morals and humanity.

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